On Sun, 2005-09-11 at 18:29, Bryan J. Smith wrote: > Is there some way you'all are formatting your Ext3 partitions that takes > so long? I don't think has ever taken longer than 8 hours to fully fsck > my Ext3 partitions on a multi-TB server -- and typically I only have 1-2 > filesystems that need a full fsck and I'm _never_ down more than 1-2 > hours. It goes with the number of files more than the size of the partition or size used. In my case it is a backuppc archive containing multiple copies of most of the other servers at the site. Backuppc compresses files, then links duplicates so it can cram about 10x what you could otherwise fit on a drive. Fsck still has to follow each directory entry to check it even though all the hard links point to the same place. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com